Trouble Showed the Way
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Trouble Showed the Way

Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990

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  2. English
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Trouble Showed the Way

Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990

About this book

This extensive study of gender and trade in Nairobi is "a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women's history. Highly recommended" ( Choice ). Herskovitz Award–winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides a case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and nonfiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focusing on traders in one commodity, dried staples, and comparing and contrasting the evolution of women's trade with men's trade. "An important resource for anyone interested in the history of women and trade in modern Kenya...." —International Journal of African Historical Studies "A landmark study, meticulously executed and written.... it will have a wide impact on some of the most significant questions facing the disciplines of history, anthropology, political science, and development economics." —Gracia Clark

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INDEX

Abbott, Susan 222, 233, 277
Abothuguchi 245
Abu-Lughod, Janet 291
Accra, Ghana 10, 218
Adagala, Kavetsa 25
adultery 33, 99, 140, 234
African Advisory Council 17
African Affairs Committee appointment of, 1945 17
African Americans 16
African District Councils (ADC) 117, 119, 126-127, 137
African Foodstuffs Ordinance, 1957 117
African Women’s Training Center, Wangige 127
Africanization
of corporate distributorships 128
of government personnel 17, 258-260
of Nairobi administration 14
of politics 143
age-sets 41, 242-245, 247
functions of 243
warriors’ 70-71
agriculture
intensification of production 85
Ministry of 23, 118
officers 87, 110, 118
Ainsworth, John 44, 67, 72
alcoholism 222, 227
Alliance Secondary School 82
Allison, Caroline 284
Alvis, V. 253
Anglican Mothers’ Union 228
Arcury, Thomas 222
Arkell-Hardwick, A. A. 73
Arthur, Dr. 98, 242
Asians 86, 91, 113, 120, 122, 124, 128, 174-175, 245, 253
brothelkeepers 13
customers 174
merchants 149, 151
political representation 15
traders 80, 89-90
Askwith, T.G. 16, 132-133
Banana Hill 105, 174
Bantu, Northern 11
Barlow, A. R. 95
Barnes, Sandra T. 278, 284
baskets 106, 121
weaving cooperative 155, 174, 288...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments and Dedication
  6. Note on Currency and Measures
  7. I. Introduction
  8. II. From Njahe to Nyayo: Beans and the Evolution of Agricultural Imperialism in Kenya
  9. III. The Development of Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 to 1940
  10. IV. Various Nefarious Happenings: Trade, Wars and Traders War, 1940 to 1963
  11. V. Here We Come Only to Struggle: Changes in Trade, 1964 to 1990
  12. VI. Seeking the Freedom to Raise my Children: Changes in Marriage
  13. VII. Organizing: Women and Collective Action, 1920 to 1990
  14. VIII. Trouble Showed the Way; Conclusion: Empowerment?
  15. Bibliography of Works Cited
  16. Index